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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
23-5828 Raquel Rivera v. United States Third Circuit 2023-10-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof controlled-substances-act drug-prosecution farm-bill hemp hemp-classification marijuana marijuana-definition possession-with-intent-to-distribute thc-concentration thc-content Whether the government must prove that a substance is marijuana and not hemp as an element of a possession with intent to distribute offense, or wheth…
23-5605 Alfred John McDonald v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-09-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-history drug-quantity due-process evidence-standard hemp marijuana procedural-fairness relevant-conduct Whether McDonald's right to due process was violated
22-7864 Tommy Lee Hubbard, Jr. v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-06-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP circumstantial-evidence civil-rights controlled-substance controlled-substances due-process federal-courts hemp legal-interpretation marijuana marijuana-classification thc-threshold Can the federal courts rely exclusively upon circumstantial evidence to decide that a marijuana substance is illegal, when the circumstances surroundi…